native speech
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Now I teach voice and speech to actors in a theater program in the South, and I think a lot about how people perceive the native speech varieties of this region.
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2021
"In that respect, Southern speech is closer to the native speech of England," concludes Pederson, and often to Elizabethan England.
From Time Magazine Archive
He also had to tone down to a rough whisper the novel's tangy native speech to suit the ears of censors.
From Time Magazine Archive
He speaks in the hortatory Emily Post style which all British novelists since Max Beerbohm seem to think is the native speech of proper Bostonians.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Scandinavian settlers on the north-west coast of France early in the 10th century quickly lost their native speech, which left no trace except in some contributions to the vocabulary of the language they adopted.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
